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Friday, January
18
Saturday, January 19
Admission:
$5, $10 minimum
Showtimes: 7:30pm
reservations
are recommended
Artists: Alterazioni Video, Carlos Amorales,
Chen Chieh-Jen, Democracia, Ruth Gómez, Aníbal López A-1 53167, Ciprian
Muresan, Iván Navarro, Yoshua Okón, Reiningungsgesellschaft,
Nedko Solakov
Outsourcing comprises a selection of videos by international artists
examining the liberal economy utopia from different perspectives.
The videos showcased in this program represent a critical and engaged
insight into the principles, peripheries and often forgotten effects
of the miraculous liberal model. Combining the hectic rhythm and
aesthetics of spots and music videos, performance documentary and
film archive footage, the artists included in this program address
the fears, indifference, violence and exploitation that liberal
strategies such as "Outsourcing" provoke and leave spitefully
unobserved.
As their impellers emphasize, liberalization processes implemented
during the last decades have resulted in an unprecedented economic
growth. Opposite to previous planned economies, liberal recipes
implemented globally have proved their miraculous effects in so
diverse countries such as Chile, Spain and China. The forces of
free markets, described by Adam Smith as an "Invisible Hand" revealed
being far more efficient than the State bureaucracy managing economic
resources. As their defendants point out incessantly, free markets
and open trade have achieved to increase wealth and reduce unemployment
to unimaginable rates.
But at the same time as the extraordinary statistics generated
by "The invisible hand" are repeated endlessly, their
most perverse effects vanish as with magic's sake. As in a fantastic
trick, the illusions created by the consumerist spectacle hide
the most uncomfortable aspects of reality behind a smoke cloud.
As even über-speculator George Soros observes, purely transactional
approach to economic activity is in danger of undermining social
values and loosening moral constraints. Markets stage then, as
in the most eloquent Darwinist scenario, a ruthless struggle for
survival, where only the fittest survive, where the weak are crushed
and eliminated. Expelled to the margins of the scene, and silenced
by the media pyrotechnics, the misery and exploitation generated
by the most ruthless liberalism vanish before our eyes. And with
them fades away any sort of responsibility.
Curated by Raúl Martínez
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